Areas

  • Public Health
  • Hospital-related services
  • Quality Assurance
  • Research and development
  • Crime laboratory\forensics
  • Red cross
  • Medical Writing\illustration
  • Environmental health

Employers

  • Public laboratories
  • Private laboratories
  • Medical Director
  • Clinical Manager
  • Marketing/sales
  • Chemistry
  • Drug testing
  • Hematology
  • Microbiology
  • International and national organizations
  • Genetic Laboratories

Strategies

  • Collecting patient blood specimens and packing, inspecting, and distributing blood and blood products, such as donated plasma.
  • Assembling, disassembling, and maintaining laboratory equipment.
  • Record keeping.
  • Design and conduct studies that investigate both human diseases and methods to prevent and treat them.
  • Prepare and analyze medical samples and data to investigate causes and treatment of toxicity, pathogens, or chronic diseases.
  • Standardize drug potency, doses, and methods to allow for the mass manufacturing and distribution of drugs and medicinal compounds.
  • Create and test medical devices.
  • Develop programs that improve health outcomes, in partnership with health departments, industry personnel, and physicians.
  • Write research grant proposals and apply for funding from government agencies and private funding sources.